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HappyDussehraeveryone. Dasara is a festival , celebrating the victory of good over evil. In India, this is the longest celebrated festival, 10 days, ( Dus means 10 ) and a very important and celebrated pomp and grand. Durgamaa( Goddess ) is worshipped in different avatars every day during Dasara ( Vijayadasami, Dussehra ) like, Balatripurasundari, Mahuishasuramardini, Annapoorna, Kali, RajaRajeswari, KanakaDurga, Lakshmi, Saraswati and Gayatridevi.

The Durgamaa temple in Vijayawada( Kanakadurga temple / Indra keeladri ), is very famous for Dasara and lakhs of people visit this temple during these ten days. I myself believe her a lot and have been to this temple numerous times. I have been making prasadam/naivedyam( offering to god ) these days, and here areBellamNeyyiAppam/Appalu made with Whole wheat flour, Clarified butter and Jaggery(gur ). They say Durga ma likes this a lot.

This is my first time making these for the goddess as naivedyam, so i haven't measured anything exactly. I just eyeballed everything and you need to adjust according to your taste and requirement.

Ingredients for Appam( Appalu ):

Jaggery/Bellam/Gur

Whole wheat flour / Atta / Godumapindi

Ghee / Neyyi (Nei)/ Clarified butter for frying

Whole Cardamom or Elaichi

Water

How to make Nethibellamappam:

Grate gur/bellam or just shave using a knife and then add it to say a glass of water.

Gur should completely dissolve into water, to speed up the process you can even boil the mixture until the gur is completely dissolved

Heat ghee in kadai under medium flame

Once dissolved add crushed cardamom/elaichi and then mix in atta/whole wheat flour. The batter should be thicker than pancake batter.

Once the ghee is heated enough, with a spoon drop in the batter, and once they are golden brown remove from the pan, and dry them on paper towels.

Appams are very nutritious food for kids too, its made with whole wheat, jaggery and fresh ghee. Since i made as naivedyam, i deep fried in ghee, and when cooking these as snacks of course you can go light on the ghee( butter ) by using paniyaram pan.

My whole wheat butter and jageery fritters / appams are on its way to: